Philadelphia DA’s office says Meek Mill could soon be released on bail

Meek Mill’s conviction may soon be reversed - and prosecutors say they’re OK with releasing him from prison while he awaits his appeal. (Pool Photo)

Operation #FreeMeekMill may soon celebrate success.

The Philadelphia District Attorney's office said Wednesday it's not against letting rapper Meek Mill out of prison on bail as he appeals his conviction — the reversal of which has a strong likelihood in the wake of claims that the star's arresting officer lied under oath, according to documents acquired by the Daily News.

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Prosecutors said so in a motion filed in Common Pleas Court regarding Mill, whose real name is Robert Rihmeek Williams.

"In the event (Mill's) conviction is reversed … the risk of an unjust or disproportionate sentence having been served exists," the motion reads. "That risk increases as long as (Mill) remains in custody."

Mill's attorney Joe Tacopina told the Daily News that he is "very pleased" by the DA's filing.

"We look forward to his immediate release by the court on bail in light of this development," he said in a statement.

The news from District Attorney Larry Krasner's office comes shortly after the rapper's mother publicly pleaded with him to "step in" and help her son.

"I would like to thank the Philadelphia District Attorney's office for carefully evaluating my son's matter and not opposing the request for bail," mom Kathy Williams said in a statement to the Daily News. "The fact that Robert's entire conviction could be overturned is a blessing and I pray that God gives Judge Brinkley the wisdom to make the right decision and allow my son to return home to his family. I truly believe justice will prevail."

Mill, 30, was sentenced in November to two to four years locked up for violating probation stemming from a 2008 drug and weapon possession conviction, for which he was in prison for eight months.

But last month, an ex-Philadelphia cop alleged that Reggie Graham, Mill's arresting officer and the lone witness at his trial a decade ago, lied on the stand to get the rapper to the big house.

In a sworn affidavit, Jerold Gibson accused Graham of lying about the events surrounding Mill's arrest.

Graham, who retired last year, was also named in a DA's list of officers to be avoided as witnesses because of their spotty reliability.

The information about Graham's testimony has been neither rejected nor accepted by prosecutors, but is considered "new and important."

"Obviously, the current District Attorney's Office and this Court are presented with new and important information relating to the integrity of the original conviction that this Court could not have known at trial or at any subsequent violation hearing because the prior District Attorney's Office did not provide it to Petitioner or to the Court," the motion reads.

Mill's sentencing last fall sparked outrage among the public, including famous faces like JAY-Z and the Rev. Al Sharpton, especially considering his prosecutors and probation officer recommended Judge Genece Brinkley not hand him jail time.

Brinkley — who Mill's lawyer claimed overstepped boundaries by visiting the rapper and suggesting Mill record specific music in the years since his initial arrest — denied his bail bid in December, citing the fact that he was a "danger to the community."

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Mill's attorneys had previously requested she be removed from the case, as they believed she had made it personal and had assumed an "essentially prosecutorial" position.

"There's brothers locked down that did nothing to be here but piss off people like Brinkley," Mill told Rolling Stone in an interview published Wednesday.

"I want to speak on this system and what it does to black people — on both f--king sides of the fence."